Fire starting: Your instructor will guide you through learning to use ferrocerium rods to make fire a variety ways including starting a fire using materials found on the countryside. Once you have mastered the basic fire making skills, you can try your hand using more primitive methods of fire starting such as the bow drill!

You will learn create fire using 3 different methods:

Ferrocerium rods & cotton balls

Ferrocerium rods with natural tinder

Bow drill

Shelter building: You will learn to build primitive survival shelters using materials found in nature along with tarps! This is much more challenging than you would think!

When:

Available all year round

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Duration: 2 hours

This wilderness survival course is designed so you can enjoy the experience and take home some valuable knowledge and a greater understanding of survival techniques. With some knowledge, basic wilderness survival skills plus a little confidence you can survive almost anywhere!

So whether you are looking for fun things to do in Niagara or a unique gift, this Fire and Shelter Making Survival Course is the ticket.